RADIO FREE AMERICA
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CHURCH INFORMATION
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COMMEMORATIVE ITEMS
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SERMON TRANSCRIPTS
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SPEECHES
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BOOKLETS & PAMPHLETS
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NEWSPAPER ARTICLES
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OBITUARIES
Read obituaries for Dr. McIntire and his wife Fairy.
OTHER ITEMS
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- Atheist O’Hair Believed Dead
- Atheist Disappearance Sparks Rumors
- Thefts Rock Atheisms Mecca
- After 8 Months Atheist Leader Still Missing
- Was O’Hair Clan Abducted, Murdered?
- Arrests of 2 Could Be Link to O’Hair Case
- Former Aide to O’Hair Is Arrested
- O’Hair’s Ex-Manager Caught With Arms
- FBI Ends Search of Ranch For Clues on Fate of Atheist
- Case of Missing Atheist Beginning To Look Like Murder
- FBI suspects O’Hair, Children, Slain
- Search for O’Hairs Comes Up Empty, Suspect Faces Charges
- Atheist O’Hair and Two Relatives Were Killed, Report Says
- O’Hair Suspect Pleads Guilty to Unrelated Gun Charges
- Burglars Hit Jackpot Find O’Hair Gold Coins
- Snitches To Testify About O’Hair Case
- Trial Fails to Solve O’Hair Mystery
- Man Guilty of Extortion in O’Hair Case
- Search for Atheist Apparently Over
- Remains at Texas Ranch Believed To Be O’Hair Family
- Suspect Admits to “Violence” Against O’Hairs
- Top Suspect Admits He Did Violence To the O’Hairs
- Clues Point to Death of Atheist Family
- A Casualty of Her Own Revolution?
- Bodies Identified of Missing Atheist and Kin
- Three Skeletons Confirmed to be O’Hairs
- Mangled Remains on Texas Ranch Identified as O’Hairs’
- Miscellaneous Articles About O’Hair Murder
Famed Atheist’s Disappearance Sparks Rumors That She Has Died
by Katie Fairbank, Associated Press
Philadelphia Inquirer, 9-29-95
Madalyn Murray O’Hair, 76, hasn’t been seen in public in weeks. Some associates say she’s safe.
DALLAS – America’s most prominent atheist, Madalyn Murray O’Hair, hasn’t been· seen in public for weeks,
giving rise to rumors that she died and that her followers are keeping it quiet so Christians don’t pray over her.
A note was left at her Austin headquarters, American Atheists Inc., telling employees the offices would
be shut down until further notice. The building is for sale, and thenormally accessible O’Hair has not
returned phone calls.
Board member Arnold Via said O’Hair, 76, visited him in Virginia on Aug. 11 and was in poor health because
of diabetes. That was the last time he saw her.
”It’s been worrying me,” Via said.”I sent her a manuscript about picketing the Pope in October at the
United Nations in New York, and I haven’t heard from her.”
O’Hair filed the lawsuit: in 1962 that led to the Supreme Court ban on school-sponsored prayer. Since then, she has been active in the fight to enforce the constitutionally required separation of church and state.
O’Hair, her son Jon and her daughter Robin live together in Austin and work for American Atheists. They left their home and closed the office several weeks ago.
She is estranged from another son,William J. Murray, a Christian evangelist who heads a Fairfax, Va., group called Citizens to Restore Voluntary
School Prayer.
According to Via, the family decided several years ago that when O’Hair died, the children would take
the money from her estate and the organization and go to New Zealand to make sure their brother made no
claims against it. A call to William J. Murray at his Dallas home was not immediately returned.
In Houston, no permit for cremation has been filed at the Harris County Medical Examiner’s office,
and the Texas Bureau of Vital Statistics has not received any notification of her death.
Associates said the family had alwayswanted to keep O’Hair’s death quiet because they feared that Christians
would claim she had renounced her atheist beliefs on her deathbed.
”I would suspect that when she dies they’re going to have to take some sort of precautions to keep
someone from praying over her,” said Gipson Arnold, the head of Atheists Network.
However, some associates do not believe that O’Hair is missing, and Austin police have received no reports
involving the family.
”I just talked with Madalyn herself moments ago,” Spike Tyson, the media\
coordinator for American Atheists, said yesterday. He said she would not be immediately available
for questioning.
”I can tell you categorically that Madalyn is alive,” said longtime
American Atheists member Frank Zindler of Columbus, Ohio. ”I can’t tell you exactly what is happening.
She’s safe, and that’s all I can tell you. ‘ ‘